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The basic idea is similar to running a wet finger around the rim of a wine glass.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026

He goes on to explain why he isn’t currently playing, lifting a crooked finger to the camera and saying he is injured.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

Anderson’s original “Resident Evil” film franchise, the writer-director — known for his abrasive, nu-metal vulgar auteurism — raises a middle finger of sorts to his detractors.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

Another time, her personal shopper asked Parisian jewelry designer Yvonne Leone to make a ring to fit her finger.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

The woman held it up, feeling the ribs of it, running one finger over the pattern.

From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff

It’s the reason so many of us walk to our cars with our keys poking through our fingers, why we tense up when someone walks too closely behind us on a dark street.

From Slate ● Oct. 9, 2026

A fan appeared to throw a water bottle at the glass window, while others yelled and displayed their own middle fingers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026

He smooths the features of the head -- which he says weighs more than a ton -- with a yellow sponge, while another craftsman adds clay to the fingers of the enormous hands.

From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026

Users can see data inside the glass, and snap their fingers to take a photo.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

After the first hour I myself manage to relax, comforted by the routine numbness of my job, the way it allows your mind to go blank as your fingers do all the work.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

"It's more a theme park than a shopping mall," Germany supporter Michael Karg, 48, said as he fingered through an A-Z list of restaurants on a digital directory.

From Barron's ● Jun. 27, 2026

So it didn't take long for Mr Freeman – legally known as Desmond Filby – to be fingered as the alleged culprit.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2025

And it fingered Diana Teran, its own constitutional policing advisor, as the source of the leak, even though Teran was the one who’d initially reported it and denied passing along the information.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2024

And while a species commonly known as "the rat flea" has been fingered as the main culprit in plague outbreaks, a species known as "the human flea" may play a secondary role.

From Science Daily ● May 1, 2024

He reached down and fingered the yellow stone hung around my neck on a string.

From "Milkweed" by Jerry Spinelli

Other remaining brand-name correspondents, including the ageless Lesley Stahl, for a while were feared to be fingering their rip cords too.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

"I tend now to play parts of chords, rather than fingering the whole damn thing. I use these shortcuts that would be a nightmare for a guitar teacher."

From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2023

For more than a decade, scientists have debated which animals alive today hail from that earliest sister, fingering two phyla as the most likely candidates: sponges and comb jellies.

From Science Magazine ● May 17, 2023

She had a leopard scarf elegantly wrapped around her head and was fingering a glittering ring and staring blankly into the distance.

From Reuters ● Feb. 7, 2023

At last McNab was back on the mound, fingering the ball in his glove, a demon’s gleam in his eye.

From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli